matter is energy in motion

Ever tried con-temp-lating

... beating in time with ... a flower, a river or a tree?

Sitting with it and letting it inform you?

Its structure might not be revealed as per a lab dissection,

but oh so much more of its life is shared by simply being with it

... a life that cannot be analysed with a scalpel.

The same with a human being.

I shared my dying mother’s last moments.

There is more going on in such relationships

than can ever be explicated objectively.

How hard and concrete is the gross material world?

There are no particles as such. Matter is only space ... in motion.

It’s like peeling away the layer of an onion,

and finding at its centre ... nothing.

What do we do then with our analytical tools?

We dissect a dead body in order to discover its secrets.

We carry on dissecting and classifying

in order to get more understanding of this thing called ‘life’,

and with each dissection we lose a little more

of the very thing that we are attempting to observe.